Talent Acquisition Partner Senior Living

Job Description

Job Description

Position Summary

The Talent Acquisition Partner supports full-cycle recruitment for high-volume senior living roles across Lifespark. This role is responsible for partnering with hiring managers, coordinating recruiting activity, sourcing and screening candidates, and helping ensure a positive candidate and hiring leader experience.

This position is ideal for a developing recruiter with 1–3 years of recruiting or related talent acquisition experience who is eager to learn, grow, and build expertise in senior living, healthcare, and high-volume hiring environments.

Position Functions and Responsibilities

  High-Volume Talent Acquisition

• Support full-cycle recruitment for high-volume senior living, care team, community-based, and service-oriented roles
• Partner with hiring managers to understand staffing needs, role requirements, schedules, and candidate profiles
• Build and maintain candidate pipelines for recurring openings, with a focus on timely follow-up and consistent candidate engagement

Hiring Manager Partnership

• Serve as a responsive recruiting partner to hiring managers by providing updates, candidate feedback, and support throughout the hiring process
• Assist with intake discussions, interview coordination, offer preparation, and candidate handoffs
• Learn to use recruiting data and market feedback to help improve hiring outcomes and candidate flow

Candidate Experience & Employer Brand 

• Provide a timely, professional, and people-first candidate experience from application through offer or disposition
• Represent Lifespark at career fairs, community hiring events, school partnerships, and other recruiting activities
• Help strengthen Lifespark’s employer brand by sharing accurate role information and communicating the value of working in senior living

Sourcing, Screening, and Pipeline Support

• Use job boards, referrals, social media, community outreach, and direct sourcing to identify candidates for high-volume openings
• Screen candidates for basic qualifications, availability, interest, and alignment with role expectations
• Maintain accurate candidate records, pipeline notes, and recruiting activity within the applicant tracking system

Process Excellence and Learning

• Follow consistent, compliant recruiting practices and escalate questions or complex situations as appropriate
• Track recruiting activity, candidate status, and open requisition updates to support timely reporting and follow-through
• Demonstrate willingness to learn recruiting best practices, senior living workforce needs, and Lifespark processes while continuously improving personal effectiveness

Qualifications

Experience and Education

Required: 

• 1–3 years of recruiting, talent acquisition, human resources, staffing, or related experience
• Interest in developing strong hiring manager partnerships and learning consultative recruiting practices
• Experience or interest in healthcare, senior living, service-based, or high-volume recruiting environments
• Ability to source, screen, engage, and follow up with candidates in a timely and professional manner
• Strong communication, organization, attention to detail, and follow-through skills
• Ability to participate in recruiting events, community outreach, and hiring initiatives as needed
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and ability to learn applicant tracking systems and recruiting tools

Preferred:

• Prior experience supporting high-volume hiring, scheduling, onboarding coordination, or customer service recruitment
• Familiarity with recruitment marketing, job postings, social media outreach, or community-based sourcing
• Comfort using data, reports, and ATS activity to understand recruiting progress and identify follow-up needs
• Willingness to learn senior living roles, workforce needs, and recruiting strategies specific to Lifespark communities
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment with changing priorities
• Desire to grow recruiting expertise and contribute to strong candidate and hiring leader experiences
• Ability to communicate with professionalism, urgency, and empathy when supporting candidates and hiring teams
• Commitment to continuous learning, accountability, and people-first recruiting practices

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Knowledge of basic full-cycle recruiting practices, including sourcing, screening, interview coordination, candidate communication, and offer support
• Knowledge of or willingness to learn senior living, healthcare, and service-based workforce needs, including high-volume staffing dynamics
• Skill in identifying and engaging candidates through job boards, referrals, outreach, community events, and other sourcing channels
• Skill in communicating with hiring managers to clarify role needs, share candidate updates, and support timely hiring decisions
• Skill in assessing basic candidate qualifications, availability, interest, and fit through structured screening conversations
• Skill in using applicant tracking systems, recruiting tools, Microsoft Office, and activity reports to manage requisitions and candidate progress
• Ability to manage multiple openings and candidate conversations while maintaining accuracy, responsiveness, and follow-through
• Ability to communicate effectively with candidates, hiring managers, HR partners, and cross-functional teams in both verbal and written formats
• Ability to remain organized, adaptable, and solutions-focused in a high-volume recruiting environment
• Ability to apply sound judgment, maintain confidentiality, and follow equal opportunity standards and organizational policies throughout the recruiting process

In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, all essential job functions are required. Management reserves the right to change job responsibilities, duties, and hours as needs change. This document is for management communication only and is not intended to imply a written or implied contract of employment.

Physical Demands

The following physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Walking/mobility, reaching, bending, lifting, sitting and standing for periods of time.

  Lifespark Benefits Include:    

• Annual Reviews/Raises {Shift differentials if applicable} 
• Paid Time Off – Vacation Time 
• Mileage reimbursement
• Medical, Dental, Vision benefits for Full Time Hires 
• Short-Term Disability & Long-Term Disability Insurance 
• Life Insurances 
• 401k + Company Match for full-time and part-time employees 
• Referral bonuses 
• Career path to other positions within our growing company! 

Our Lifespark culture has created not only an award-winning workplace — earning Star Tribune Top Workplace 12 times, Minneapolis Business Journal Best Places to Work three times, and Top USA #1 in Healthcare — but a place where you have the room to be creative, make a difference, and have a purposeful, direct impact on how people age. Lifespark’s full continuum of services offers a breadth of roles with the support to grow your career. To see the experience we are creating, watch our award-winning video Going South – this is the experience you will help create at Lifespark! Changing the age-old story starts with you – let’s get you hired

It has been and will continue to be our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to age, race, creed, color, disability, marital status, sex, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, arrest record, conviction record, military service, use or nonuse of lawful products off the Employer’s premises during nonworking hours, or declining to attend a meeting or to participate in any communication about religious matters or political matters, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.